From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Oct 13 2004 - 15:34:27 BST
Mark,
> msh says:
> As long as religion insists that God is unmeasurable, the two realms
> of thought will be concerned with mutually exclusive domains. The
> only time religion and science come into conflict is when religious
> people seek for their beliefs the imprimatur of science (or math or
> logic).
They also come into conflict when materialist people claim that science has
removed the need to believe in religion.
The interesting social and psychological question, at that
> point, is why they desire this stamp of approval.
Because they think that science is culturally dominant. You are right that
it is foolish to make scientific claims for religion, but among
contemporary religious thinkers, the only ones who do are the creation
"scientists" and a few weirdos that still think God's existence can be
proven. Mainstream theology has long since given that up. They may argue
for God's existence (and not all do even that), but not on any scientific
or mathematical basis.
- Scott
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